Improvement in button-fasteners



A. M. ,BlCHMOND.

Improvement in Buitton-Fasteners.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARCI-IIBALD M. RICHMOND, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT lN BUTTON-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. I [4,200, dated April25, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARCHIBALD M. RICH- 'MOND, of the city, county, andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inButton-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in whichFigure 1 represents in perspective a button with the fastener inquestion passed through the eye thereof. Fig. 2 represents the fasteneralone, and on an enlarged scale, to better show its construction.

I am aware that springfasteners have been made heretofore to be passedthrough the eye of a button to hold said button in place. I do not claimsuch, irrespective of how they are passed through the eye of the buttonand how withdrawn, as these facilities are what my invention aims at.

My invention consists in a bent spring-fastener made of wire, and soshaped and formed as that while it can only be passed through the eye ofthe button with its folded end foremost it can be withdrawn therefromeither end foremost.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

The fastenera is made as follows-that is to say, first, it is doubled orfolded, as at 1; thence bowed or swelled out, as at 2; then contracted,as at 3, and finally bowed out, as at 4. By this construction of thefastener it is inserted in the eye of the button with the point 1foremost, and may be withdrawn therefrom either way. The facility of theinsertion is important, for by the usual way of inserting the fastenerwith the free ends foremost, it is very difficult to get both endsthrough theeye, and frequently but one of the bows enter the eye.

ener is in the eye of the button, the fastener remains there by thespring-pressure of the two bars, and they will spring or yield enough oneither or both sides of that point to admit of drawing it out either endforemost.

\Vhat I claim as a new article of manufacture is- A buttonfastener madeof wire, and so shaped that it can be entered into the eye of the buttonwith the folded end 1 foremost and be withdrawn either end foremost, asdescribed and represented.

A. M. RICHMOND.

IVitnesses:

A. B. SroUGHroN, EDMUND? MAssoN.

\Vhen the contracted portion 3 of the fast

